Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to saving and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different types of hosting services used for various aims, so let's review them. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you wish to establish a web portal, mail address accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular companies, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between separate groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain firms offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share an immense amount of pics with chums or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you wish to possess an email address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many video files as you would like without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular web content exclusively.